Glubb Pasha

John Bagot Glubb (16 April 1897-17 March 1986), better known as Glubb Pasha, was a Lieutenant-General in the Arab Legion of Jordan. He was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II before being sent to train Transjordan's military after its independence, and he was one of its commanders during the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948. Glubb was removed from his post and the Arab Legion dissolved in 1956 by King Hussein of Jordan during his efforts to make Jordan fully independent from the United Kingdom, and he died in 1986.

Biography
John Bagot Glubb was born on 16 April 1897 in Preston, Lancashire, England. He served with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front of World War I and suffered a shattered jaw, and in 1920 he was transferred to Iraq. In 1930, Glubb joined the Arab Legion, and he formed the Bedouin Desert Patrol to stop the Bedouin tribes from raiding each other in southern Jordan, and in 1939 he was made commander of the Arab Legion. During World War II, Glubb commanded the Arab Legion in the 1941 Anglo-Iraqi War against Rashid Ali's pro-Axis Powers government of the Kingdom of Iraq before fighting against Vichy France in Syria and Lebanon. He earned the nickname "Glubb Pasha" due to his command of purely-Bedouin soldiers. In 1948, Pasha commanded the Arab Legion during the First Arab-Israeli War, and he was given command of Jordanian forces in the West Bank until March 1949, when the armistice was signed. On 1 March 1956, he was relieved of command of the Arab Legion by King Hussein I of Jordan, who also disbanded the Arab Legion and replaced all British officers in the army with Jordanian officers and formed the Jordanian Army in place of the Arab Legion. He died in 1986 in Mayfield, Sussex, England at the age of 88.